Cover to Cover: Classic Albums, Reimagined as Books

You have to be pretty ballsy to cover Patti Smith, Michael Jackson, and Bob Dylan, and artist Christophe Gowans does so – brilliantly – by taking the concept of musical covers to a whole new level. With The Record Books project, Gowans recasts famous albums as books, transforming Patti Smith’s Horses into a cheery elementary school primer about horses, and Prince’s Purple Rain into an ’80s sci-fi novel.

You can view his entire library on Flickr, or snatch a copy for your bookshelf with his compilation book, The Record Books: Volume 1. Personally, I’m holding out for his soon-to-come postcard packs, which you can request a set of by commenting on his Flickr page!